The other woman provided the information to break the case, Manlius police Sgt. Joe Peters said today.

Gregory Gottfried, 22, 310 Edgerton St., was charged late Tuesday with sexual abuse, a felony, and forcible touching, a misdemeanor. Gottfried was arraigned early today in Manlius Town Court and ordered held on $25,000 bail or $75,000 bond.

The Fayetteville woman was removing items from her car trunk about 1 a.m. March 19 after a trip to Wegmans in DeWitt, when a man tried to force her into the trunk, police said. She screamed and fought back, alerting the neighbors. The man fled.

Gregory Gottfried

The Fayetteville woman gave a limited description of the man and his car, which allowed police to find what they believed was video of the suspect's car in Wegmans parking lot, Peters said.

The other woman telephoned police after hours on March 20 to tell them she had been followed home by a man with a similar car previously and that she had written down the car's license plate number, Peters said.

"That really broke the case open for us," Peters said.

Police used that information to find Gottfried and his 2003 gray Honda Civic, Peters said.

Peters would not give any information on the other woman besides saying she lived outside the jurisdiction of the Manlius police.